World Trade Atlas 1870-2013

Paper reference

The hidden hyperbolic geometry of international trade: World Trade Atlas 1870–2013

Scientific Reports 6, 33441 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep33441

Guillermo García-Pérez¹, Marián Boguñá¹, Antoine Allard¹, and M. Ángeles Serrano¹²

¹Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

²Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain

The World Trade Atlas 1870-2013

The World Trade Atlas 1870-2013 Interactive Tool is an interactive graphical representation of the history of world trade from 1870 to 2013, a collection of annual world trade maps in which distances incorporate the different dimensions that affect international trade, beyond mere geography. The atlas provides us with information regarding the long-term evolution of the international trade system and demonstrates that, in terms of trade, the world is not flat, but hyperbolic.

Data Used

Barbieri, Katherine and Omar Keshk. 2012. Correlates of War Project Trade Data Set Codebook, Version 3.0. Online: http://correlatesofwar.org.

K. Barbieri, O. M. Keshk, and B. M. Pollins, Conflict Management and Peace Science 26, 471 (2009).

International Monetary Fund, Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), http://www.imf.org/en/Data.

The World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/.

ROC’s Bureau of Foreign Trade, http://www.trade.gov.tw/English/.

The Maddison-Project, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm, 2013 version.

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch’s data, http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/exptradegdp.html.

CIA, The World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/.

Louis Johnston and Samuel H. Williamson, “What Was the U.S. GDP Then?”, MeasuringWorth, http://www.measuringworth.org/usgdp/.

Contact

M. Ángeles Serrano: marian.serrano@ub.edu

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by: a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Complex Systems; the ICREA Academia award, funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya; the MINECO project no. FIS2013-47282-C2-1-P; the Generalitat de Catalunya grant no. 2014SGR608; and the European Commission FET-Proactive Project MULTIPLEX (grant 317532). Processing application developed by Guillermo García-Pérez. Web developed by Martí Ribalta Albuixech.

World Trade Atlas 1870-2013 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Map functionalities

Click on any country to mark, hide and show it.

Use the bar below the disk to navigate in time.

Right click on the disk to regulate the number of country labels displayed.

Country list

Click the Country list button (cL) to show/hide the list of countries. Countries not present in the world trade web appear darkened.

Use the up and down keys or click on the scroll bar to scroll up and down.

Click on any country once (either in the list or in the map) to mark it and track its evolution. Marked countries appear in red in the map, while its links and first neighbours appear in light blue.

Click on any country twice to hide it. The country and its links disappear from the map. To show the country again, third click on it.

Toolbox

Click on the toolbox items to control the application or use your keybord as follows.

Space bar Play/Pause the video.

← → Go to the previous or next year.

+ - Increase or decrease the reproduction speed.

G show/hide the GDP (in current US Mill. $) of marked countries.

T show/hide the trade volumes (in current US Mill. $) between all pairs of marked countries.

C show/hide the community structure detected using CGM. Countries belonging to the same community appear equally colored.

R Resets the app.

The focus must be on the application for the keyboard control to work (if you click outside the application the keys will not perform the described actions).

Supplementary Datasets

Database_S1 - Dyadic trade data from 1997 to 2013.

Table_S3 - Weighted edgelists of all backbones.

Table_S4 - Table containing the values of the disparity filter significance (alpha), the hyperbolic radius (R) and the elasticity parameter (beta) for every year.

Table_S5 - World trade maps containing the hyperbolic coordinates of all countries.

Table_S6 - Table containing the normalized distances (hyperbolic and angular) and connection probabilities between countries averaged over 100 embeddings.

Table_S7 - Partitions into communities obtained with the Critical Gap Method.

How to cite: G. García-Pérez, M.Boguñá, A. Allard, M. Á. Serrano
The hidden hyperbolic geometry of international trade: World Trade Atlas 1870-2013
Scientific Reports 6, 33441 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep33441

Application

Windows

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Linux

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./WorldTradeAtlas1870_2013

All application downloadable versions require java RE 8